New Pitch

Hull is on the east coast and gets half the rain as Lancashire. So you read Latics Speyk Makem.
Poisonous gasses ffs. What shite next.

“When YOU were Premier League”

So Smutty when did you stop supporting Wigan Athletic, to go glory hunting?

Following Sunderland AFC for most of my life is hardly glory hunting. Maybe you should direct your bile at the 15,000 who started to show up at the DW in 2006 but have gone AWOL over the last couple of years.

What, like this…

So what is a Sunderland and Wigan rugby fan Pfff! doing on a Latics site, trying to take the piss out of our club?

The exact same thing you whinge about on other sites when people do it to the chubsters. hypocrite!

Do you have an official link to that fact, or are you assuming because JJ was interviewed, then Latics have put up the money?

Does the cost of pitch relaying or ground maintenance feature in the Latics Annual Accounts?

I agree that the pitch is a mess, but as Egg has said, its the location – Huddersfield & Hull play as many league games on their pitch without it turning into a mud bath every February. In fact, when you were premier league, there would have been 7-8 less games played on it at this time of year and it still always looked shite.

I read somewhere that there is a giant septic tank under the pitch that would have been costly to remove at the time of construction, so DW went for the cheaper option and left it in situ to send its poisonous gases up through the land, which prevents the grass from growing during the cold months.[/quote]
Considering it is JJ who has come forwards to talk about the pitch, and he makes reference to the Wigan Athletic Head Groundsman working with turf consultants would strongly suggest to me that the football club have paid for it to be relaid.

It’s more in the interests of the football club to have a decent playing surface than the rugby club anyway.[/quote]

I would imagine that considering both clubs pay rent that the groundsman is employed by the stadium company as it doesn’t make sense to have 2 sets of groundsman working at cross purposes.
I believe that the company with a controlling stake in the stadium is called Wigan Athletic Holdings & that might be why JJ has been talking about the Wigan Athletic groundsman
On the other hand I could be talking total rubbish (it has been known once or twice before) which was why I asked Garswood if he had proof of that or whether he was just guessing.

As it happens, professional rugby league also needs a decent surface. Not to the extent that a football team does but it still needs it.
For a game played at high speed it’s no good having a surface that gives way beneath your feet why you try & change direction or when you’re pushing in a tackle – as it was last week.

That’s why I think it stinks if it is Latics as opposed to the stadium company footing the bill whilst the rugby pays doodley squat

Any shred of credability you may have had, which wasn’t much granted, was gone in that line.

I know you guys hate the rugby but if you’re going to fly the ‘rugby is the devil’ flag at least do some research first.

I wish we did have seperate grounds or a pitch that looked like a bowling green because at least then it would stop the childish crap from both sides. Granted my Facebook might not be as funny though.[/quote]
Eggy the Rugby paid for their success through massive debts I recall or did they not sell Central Park to Tesco to pay off debts amassed whilst they won everything in sight.

Any shred of credability you may have had, which wasn’t much granted, was gone in that line.

I know you guys hate the rugby but if you’re going to fly the ‘rugby is the devil’ flag at least do some research first.

I wish we did have seperate grounds or a pitch that looked like a bowling green because at least then it would stop the childish crap from both sides. Granted my Facebook might not be as funny though.[/quote]
Eggy the Rugby paid for their success through massive debts I recall or did they not sell Central Park to Tesco to pay off debts amassed whilst they won everything in sight.[/quote]

But what does that have to do with now?[/quote]

Shhhh Egg. They still think its the early 1990s.